I'm still surprised that CSU was one of the "8" brick games Embree mentioned on the schedule post-HaVaEe, but I understand why he's loosened up the criteria to a) finally get it back up there, and b) recognize that there are going to be some crucial wins during this rebuilding process that may not appear glamourous, but are going to be crucial in advancing this process to get to where we want to be.

the way embree presented his reasoning for CSU being a brick makes a lot of sense. It may not be glamorous and it may not be a big win but it is the first win of the new era, this marks the point of when we at least change direction if not climb out of this mess we are in

“How many guys have seen the bricks on the wall? Raise your hands,” Embree asked his players and staff on that night in Hawai’i.

Not more than a handful of hands were raised. It wasn’t surprising; the wall was painted over during the former coaching regime. Tradition was obliterated by a stiff bristled brush and a head coach who appeared blind to it.

Did they add any of the wins from under Hawkins to the wall? Beating OU should be a brick game, and maybe WVU and Georgia as well

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don't know if it counts, but KU with Reesing and Briscoe were ranked when we beat them. that would have qualified, even though KU lost 5 in a row or whatever to close the year. it may lack the name and SEC factor, but i'd say that was equal to the UGA win in some ways.

don't know if it counts, but KU with Reesing and Briscoe were ranked when we beat them. that would have qualified, even though KU lost 5 in a row or whatever to close the year. it may lack the name and SEC factor, but i'd say that was equal to the UGA win in some ways.

Good Lord, I think many folks are still missing the point on what a brick game should be. This has been stated a number of times. Bricks are for HUGE, program defining wins. A brick does not go up every time we beat a ranked team. If that were the case, we would be putting up 5 a year back in the 90's. The article states that prior to CSU, there were 51 bricks. That's less than one per season over the program's history. All of this nonsense about every win being a brick is ridiculous. Hell, a win over an unranked Ohio St team is even pushing it.

How do you know that those CMU's are cinder blocks and not concrete blocks or breeze blocks? They all look almost identical except cinder and breeze blocks are much lower density CMU's than concrete blocks, but they all meet ASTM C 90, which says all concrete masonry units, regardless of density, must have a minimum compressive unit strength of 1900 psi (31.1Mpa). But since you are such and expert you can tell the density of a painted CMU by looking at it in a picture right?

Good Lord, I think many folks are still missing the point on what a brick game should be. This has been stated a number of times. Bricks are for HUGE, program defining wins. A brick does not go up every time we beat a ranked team. If that were the case, we would be putting up 5 a year back in the 90's. The article states that prior to CSU, there were 51 bricks. That's less than one per season over the program's history. All of this nonsense about every win being a brick is ridiculous. Hell, a win over an unranked Ohio St team is even pushing it.

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I have to be completely honest here and this may just be a part of early on-set, post-concussion dimensia . . . . but I have NO recollection of these bricks during my time in Boulder. Of course, the Dal Ward was only one-year post-opening when I arrived but this "tradition" wasn't around when I was. Either that or I did not notice. That said, I am about the biggest history-nerd around and given my interest in the program, I would think I would have noticed.

I have to be completely honest here and this may just be a part of early on-set, post-concussion dimensia . . . . but I have NO recollection of these bricks during my time in Boulder. Of course, the Dal Ward was only one-year post-opening when I arrived but this "tradition" wasn't around when I was. Either that or I did not notice. That said, I am about the biggest history-nerd around and given my interest in the program, I would think I would have noticed.

I have to be completely honest here and this may just be a part of early on-set, post-concussion dimensia . . . . but I have NO recollection of these bricks during my time in Boulder. Of course, the Dal Ward was only one-year post-opening when I arrived but this "tradition" wasn't around when I was. Either that or I did not notice. That said, I am about the biggest history-nerd around and given my interest in the program, I would think I would have noticed.

interesting. It looks like the tradition was started by coach MAC and moved to Dal Ward:

On a wall in the hallway just outside the Buffs locker room, there used to be about 40 cinder blocks painted gold with black writing displaying dates and scores of big wins in the program`s history. The tradition of painting those bricks was started by former coach Bill McCartney in the 1980s.

Former coach Bill McCartney began painting bricks with the scores of big wins outside the team's locker room in the 1980s. The tradition carried on under former coaches Rick Neuheisel and Gary Barnett and became a source of pride for the players who helped add a brick or two to the wall during their careers.

The tradition eventually moved to a wall in a hallway just outside the locker room in the Dal Ward Center and that wall was painted over under former coach Dan Hawkins.